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Quickly Boot to Bootcamp Windows

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If you are using Bootcamp, you will notice that you can boot to Max OS X quickly using the system tray icon. In order to boot to Windows you need to go to preference and select the startup disk. Is there a way to boot into Windows quickly? Yes. There are several solutions including using the startup disk under system preference and installing an app for it. I will show you how to boot to Windows using Startup disk. Then I will show you the instructions to create an shortcut or alias so that access the startup disk quickly. Using Startup Disk 1. Select System Preference. 2. Click Startup Disk 3. Select "BOOTCAMP Windows" and click restart. Create a Shortcut to Startup Disk 1. Open a Finder. Goto the first level folder of your disk. 2. Select System >> Library >> PreferencePanes. If you prefer to use command line the path is /System/Library/PreferencePanes 3. Under PreferencePanes, find StartupDisk.prefPane. Create a sh

Gmail Server Rejects Password from Email Client and Mobile Apps

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If you encountered problem when login into gmail account (using IMAP) from your email clients such as Thunderbird, Live Mail, Apple Mail, Mail apps in iPhone and iPad, and any other email clients or apps; you are not alone. The problem you encountered is not a bug but it is a security feature implemented by Google. The solution is as follows: Problems When you add a gmail account in any email client using IMAP, you might have an error that says "your id and password has been rejected by the server". Another situation occurs when you previously working gmail account suddenly stops working and it produce a similar message that you id and password has been rejected by the mail server. Possible Causes 1. Google Security Feature Google has turn on a feature that prevents less secure apps and devices from logging into the server. This might includes emails clients and mobile apps. Under the section Less secure apps, access for less secure apps is disabled . T

Install Linux Mint 16 on VirtualBox

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The following installation instruction is to install Linux Mint 16 Cinnamon 64-bit version to VirtualBox. Setting up Virtual Machine On VirtualBox select "New". Enter the name of virtual machine. Click "Continue". Set your memory allocation for this vm. Click "Continue". Select an existing virtual hard drive or create a new one. Default is creating a new one. Click "Create". If you are creating a new virtual hard drive, select the hard drive file type. Select the default. Click "Continue". Select "Dynamically allocated" and click "Continue". Name the virtual hard drive and select the virtual hard drive size. Click "Create". You are back to the virtual machine manager screen. You can right click the virtual machine you've just created and change the setting. Goto System , select Processor and set the number of processor to be used.

Installation Guide for Fedora 20

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The following guide contains the installation procedure for  Fedora 20 . This procedure was tested on a HP laptop with dual core AMD processor and 4GB of RAM using a USB external hard disk. I boot the Fedora Live from a DVD and install the entire OS on an external (USB) hard disk. For installation of Fedora 20 on virtual machine, please refer to  Install Fedora 20 on VirtualBox with Guest Additions . For netinstall, refer to  Install Fedora 20 using Netinstall . Creation of Media This time I burn a DVD from the ISO. If you prefer to create an USB drive instead, the procedure on creating bootable USB can be found on the  official Fedora documentation here . For details of creating a bootable USB drive, please  refer to my previous post here on creating USB drive . Installing Fedora 20 Start your computer. You might need to press extra key at the beginning so that you can boot Fedora 20 from DVD or USB drive. In my case, a HP laptop, I need to press Esc and then F9. Most